In America, dining rooms weren’t even much of a concept until the late 1700s, when a space set aside specifically for dining became a part of the construction of homes for the wealthy. In the early 18th century, most dining room tables and other furniture was designed to look masculine.
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No matter what your dream dining experience looks like, there is a wide-ranging variety of vintage, new and antique dining room chairs on 1stDibs. Finding the Right Dining Room Chairs for You But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects - and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair - crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich - and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface avoidance of ornament.”Įarly practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.įollowers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs - many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. The upholstery is in clean cut Cuoio Saddle Extra leather, refined with protective dye and wax and underlined by contrast or tone-on-tone stitching.The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances - both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Also available in a version with armrests and a Large version, the structure of Isadora is made from solid ash in a Moka or Wengé stain. The Isadora chair project offers a highly modern interpretation of the forms of the past. The sensation is airy yet solid and is the result of expert craftsmanship which, by subtraction, reduces the materials to the bare essentials and exalts their pure beauty. Skilful tailored stitching and cuts give it the appearance of a light dress. The saddle-leather upholstery totally envelops it and almost appears to fly. Nevertheless, it traces a sinuous and agile profile thanks to the expert work on its thicknesses.
The Isadora chair has a solid wood structure. Created by Roberto Lazzeroni, its original design is shaped by the seamless combination of wood and saddle-leather. The Isadora chair is inspired by the grace of Isadora Duncan, pioneer of contemporary dance.
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